Travellers' tales of wonder : Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald /: Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald. (©2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Simon Cooke.
• Other Names: Cooke, Simon
• Contents: Introduction : the wonder that came later -- [pt.] I. 'Horizon of expectations' : travels in literary history. A question of form : genre and the journey -- 'An end to journeying' : travel and its discontents in late modernity -- Forms of recovery and renewal : travels in contemporary literature -- [pt.] II. Readings in contemporary travelers' tales of wonder. Bruce Chatwin and the 'modern WONDER VOYAGE' : In Patagonia (1977) -- V.S. Naipaul and the 'gift of wonder' : The enigma of arrival (1987) -- W.G. Sebald's travels through 'das unentdeckte Land' : Die Ringe des Saturn (1995) -- Afterword : the 'unlimited vicissitudes of travelling.'
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 202 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 809.9332; Travel in literature; Travel writing -- History; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; FICTION -- General; Travel in literature; Travel writing; Reiseliteratur; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748675470; 0748675477; 9781299456600
• Related ISBNs: 129945660X; 0748675469; 9780748675463
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-196) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.